Mortality too high
MOTHERS AND MONTHOLD INFANTS HEALTH MINISTER’S WARNING (From Our Resident Reporter) WELLINGTON, Today. There is a gap that lies between our success in ante-natal work and the low mortality rate of infants after the first month of life,” declared the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, at the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the Plunket Society last evening. ™^ e ,.. COmDarativel3r high maternal ra , te and the anomalously high infantile mortality rate in the first month are significant of the gap which must be filled by better service somewhere, somehow. With the aevelopment of our ante-natal and postwniL S v rVICeS J more sear chinff light will be focussed upon the gap referred to, and it may be our midwifery serIi < r e ’,°r lack ,°£ service, will then be asked to explain. Progressive New Zealand can never rest while our death rate of babies before one month of age is double that in Holland, combined with a higher maternal mortality rate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 675, 29 May 1929, Page 9
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167Mortality too high Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 675, 29 May 1929, Page 9
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